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Des Moines council adopts mid‑biennium budget amendments, adds $50,000 contingency
Summary
After a staff presentation and council Q&A, the Des Moines City Council enacted ordinance 25-092 amending the 2025–26 biennial budget, adjusting revenues and expenditures across funds and establishing a $50,000 contingency. Council emphasized conservative revenue assumptions and minimal service impacts.
The Des Moines City Council on Dec. 11 voted to enact ordinance 25-092 to amend the 2025–26 biennial budget, following a detailed presentation by Finance Director Jeff Friend.
Friend told the council the mid‑biennium review resulted in modest 2025 revenue increases (about $95,000) and reduced 2026 expectations (about $317,000), driven largely by adjustments to onetime sales and B&O receipts and a slower-than-anticipated rollout of the new square footage tax. "If it comes in higher, that's great, but we didn't want to rely on revenue that might not be there," Friend said, explaining the administration reclassified certain…
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